2015 AFL Round 6: Fremantle v Essendon

This is the match report for the match played on 9 May 2015 between Fremantle and Essendon during round 6 of the 2015 AFL season. Fremantle hosted Essendon at Domain Stadium. Matthew Pavlich captained the hosts. Jobe Watson captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Ross Lyon and the visitors were coached by James Hird.

Fremantle
Back: C. Sutcliffe, A. Pearce, L. Spurr
Half-back: G. Ibbotson, M. Johnson, C. Pearce
Centre: N. Suban, N. Fyfe, D. Pearce
Half-forward: H. Ballantyne, M. Pavlich (capt.), M. Walters
Forward: Z. Clarke, C. Mayne, M. Taberner
Follower: A. Sandilands, D. Mundy, S. Hill
Int.: M. Barlow, P. Duffield, L. Neale
Sub.: M. de Boer

Essendon
Back: M. Hurley, C. Hooker, M. Baguley
Half-back: J. Melksham, B. Goddard, J. Gwilt
Centre: T. Colyer, J. Watson (capt.), B. Stanton
Half-forward: W. Hams, J. Daniher, D. Zaharakis
Forward: J. Merrett, J. Carlisle, P. Ambrose
Follower: T. Bellchambers, M. Hibberd, D. Heppell
Int.: C. Dempsey, B. Howlett, Z. Merrett
Sub.: M. Gleeson

Fremantle (12.8.80) defeated Essendon (7.10.52).

Goalkickers
Fremantle: M. Pavlich (4), H. Ballantyne (2), Z. Clarke, S. Hill, C. Mayne, L. Neale, C. Pearce, M. Walters
Essendon: T. Colyer, J. Daniher, M. Gleeson, B. Howlett, J. Merrett, Z. Merrett, J. Watson

As a result of this match, Fremantle remained 1st on the ladder and Essendon were then 11th on the ladder (down from 9th) by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2015 AFL Season
Round: Round 6
Teams: Fremantle v Essendon
Date: Saturday 9 May 2015
Time: 6:10 PM
Venue: Domain Stadium
Attendance: 37,535

Match Results

Outcome: Fremantle def. Essendon
Score: 12.8.80 - 7.10.52

Quarter Breakdown

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
Fremantle 4 . 3 9 . 4 12 . 6 12 . 8 12 . 8 (80)
Essendon 2 . 1 3 . 3 3 . 6 7 . 10 7 . 10 (52)
Margin FREM by 14 FREM by 37 FREM by 54 FREM by 28 FREM by 28
Duration 29:55 27:39 27:59 27:23 1:52:56

Honour Roll

Coaches: Ross Lyon (Fremantle), James Hird (Essendon)
Captains: Matthew Pavlich (Fremantle), Jobe Watson (Essendon)

Match Umpires

Field Umpire: B. Hosking (#16), B. Rosebury (#8), S. Ryan (#25), E: J. Edwards (#22)
Goal Umpire: L. Edwards, B. Rogers, E: M. Laycock
Boundary Umpire: A. Bastick, C. Brown, B. Dalgleish, N. Doig

Brownlow Votes

Player Team # Votes
Lachie Neale FREM 27 3
Nat Fyfe FREM 7 2
Matthew Pavlich FREM 29 1

AFLCA Champion Votes

Player Team # Votes 5 4 3 2 1
Nat Fyfe FREM 7 8 ? ? ? 0 0
Lachie Neale FREM 27 8 ? ? ? 0 0
Matthew Pavlich FREM 29 8 ? ? ? 0 0
Brendon Goddard ESSE 9 2 0 0 0 1 0
David Mundy FREM 16 2 0 0 0 1 0
Danyle Pearce FREM 6 1 0 0 0 0 1
Lee Spurr FREM 34 1 0 0 0 0 1

Player Statistics

Fremantle

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
1 Ballantyne, Hayden HFFL 80% 2 0 10 9 1 2 0 3 1 3 1 1 1 0
21 Barlow, Michael INT 83% 0 0 23 13 10 8 0 2 2 1 1 0 2 2
30 Clarke, Zac FPL 85% 1 1 17 11 6 9 8 5 1 3 2 1 2 3
9 de Boer, Matt SUB↑ 14% 0 0 4 2 2 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1
41 Duffield, Paul INT 90% 0 0 11 5 6 2 0 5 0 1 0 0 0 0
7 Fyfe, Nat C 85% 0 2 27 12 15 7 3 2 7 0 1 0 1 5
32 Hill, Stephen RO 82% 1 0 20 15 5 4 0 3 4 4 0 1 1 3
5 Ibbotson, Garrick HBFL 94% 0 0 17 10 7 5 0 2 1 3 1 0 3 3
37 Johnson, Michael CHB 90% 0 0 14 10 4 8 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0
23 Mayne, Chris FF 83% 1 0 12 5 7 3 0 8 1 1 1 0 0 0
16 Mundy, David RR 83% 0 0 28 15 13 7 3 4 5 2 3 0 5 0
27 Neale, Lachie INT 82% 1 0 33 23 10 7 0 3 6 3 3 0 2 7
29 Pavlich, Matthew (c) CHF 88% 4 2 16 9 7 7 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 4
25 Pearce, Alex FB 93% 0 0 10 3 7 6 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0
46 Pearce, Clancee HBFR 85% 1 0 26 14 12 8 0 3 0 1 1 1 4 1
6 Pearce, Danyle WR 79% 0 0 24 18 6 3 0 2 0 4 0 1 2 7
31 Sandilands, Aaron RU 83% 0 0 12 3 9 3 33 0 4 2 0 1 0 1
34 Spurr, Lee BPR 93% 0 0 29 17 12 8 0 3 0 3 1 1 5 2
8 Suban, Nick WL 82% 0 0 14 6 8 2 0 3 1 1 1 0 1 1
33 Sutcliffe, Cam BPL 89% 0 0 21 11 10 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 3 0
20 Taberner, Matt FPR↓ 74% 0 0 6 3 3 3 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 2
10 Walters, Michael HFFR 84% 1 1 16 9 7 0 0 3 1 2 2 0 0 1
Rushed 2
Total (22 players) 12 8 390 223 167 107 47 59 35 37 20 8 35 43

M. de Boer replaced M. Taberner.

Essendon

# Player Pos. ToG% GL BH DI KI HB MK HO TA CL CR FF FA RF IF
29 Ambrose, Patrick FPR 88% 0 0 10 3 7 2 0 3 1 1 0 1 0 1
12 Baguley, Mark BPR 89% 0 0 22 8 14 5 0 2 0 4 1 2 0 2
2 Bellchambers, Tom RU 86% 0 0 9 6 3 2 21 3 2 2 2 2 0 2
22 Carlisle, Jake FF 90% 0 0 11 7 4 4 4 4 1 0 1 0 4 2
32 Colyer, Travis WL 83% 1 1 16 10 6 5 0 4 1 6 1 0 0 1
6 Daniher, Joe CHF 89% 1 1 12 7 5 6 1 3 0 5 0 2 1 2
15 Dempsey, Courtenay INT 78% 0 0 14 11 3 4 0 2 0 3 0 0 1 1
35 Gleeson, Martin SUB↑ 33% 1 0 10 4 6 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
9 Goddard, Brendon CHB 77% 0 0 35 16 19 4 0 6 7 2 0 1 4 3
42 Gwilt, James HBFR 92% 0 0 17 11 6 3 0 3 0 3 0 2 2 3
41 Hams, Will HFFL↓ 51% 0 1 4 3 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1
21 Heppell, Dyson RO 88% 0 0 24 18 6 3 2 1 7 2 0 0 1 2
1 Hibberd, Michael RR 88% 0 0 22 10 12 6 0 1 0 1 0 0 4 0
26 Hooker, Cale FB 95% 0 0 11 8 3 4 0 1 0 3 1 2 5 0
40 Howlett, Ben INT 82% 1 0 14 9 5 4 0 7 1 3 0 1 0 2
18 Hurley, Michael BPL 95% 0 0 16 11 5 3 0 5 0 3 1 0 0 1
17 Melksham, Jake HBFL 88% 0 0 11 4 7 2 0 3 1 2 1 2 0 3
20 Merrett, Jackson FPL 79% 1 1 12 9 3 4 0 3 1 0 0 0 1 1
7 Merrett, Zach INT 80% 1 0 23 10 13 5 0 3 2 4 0 1 1 5
5 Stanton, Brent WR 91% 0 0 25 16 9 9 0 4 4 1 0 1 2 6
4 Watson, Jobe (c) C 79% 1 2 28 16 12 8 2 2 5 5 0 2 0 4
11 Zaharakis, David HFFR 78% 0 0 13 7 6 1 0 3 3 1 0 1 1 2
Rushed 4
Total (22 players) 7 10 359 204 155 87 30 65 36 51 8 20 28 45

M. Gleeson replaced W. Hams.

Legend

ToG%: Time-on-Ground Percentage, GL: Goals, BH: Behinds, DI: Disposals, KI: Kicks, HB: Handballs, MK: Marks, HO: Hitouts, TA: Tackles, CL: Clearances, CR: Clangers, FF: Free Kicks For, FA: Free Kicks Against, RF: Rebounds Inside 50, IF: Inside 50s

Player Line-Up

Fremantle Coach: Ross Lyon
BACK FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
18 M. Hurley 26 C. Hooker 12 M. Baguley 31 A. Sandilands 21 M. Barlow
20 M. Taberner 23 C. Mayne 30 Z. Clarke 16 D. Mundy 41 P. Duffield
FORWARD 32 S. Hill 27 L. Neale
HALF-BACK

9 M. de Boer
17 J. Melksham 9 B. Goddard 42 J. Gwilt



10 M. Walters 29 M. Pavlich (c) 1 H. Ballantyne



HALF-FORWARD



CENTRE



32 T. Colyer 4 J. Watson (c) 5 B. Stanton



6 D. Pearce 7 N. Fyfe 8 N. Suban FOLLOWER INTERCHANGE
CENTRE 2 T. Bellchambers 15 C. Dempsey
HALF-FORWARD 1 M. Hibberd 40 B. Howlett
41 W. Hams 6 J. Daniher 11 D. Zaharakis 21 D. Heppell 7 Z. Merrett
46 C. Pearce 37 M. Johnson 5 G. Ibbotson

35 M. Gleeson
HALF-BACK



FORWARD



20 J. Merrett 22 J. Carlisle 29 P. Ambrose



34 L. Spurr 25 A. Pearce 33 C. Sutcliffe



BACK



Essendon Coach: James Hird

Score Timeline

Quarter Team Scoring Event Score Time
Q1 ESSE Jackson Merrett goal 0.0.0 - 1.0.6 05:20
FREM Hayden Ballantyne goal 1.0.6 - 1.0.6 09:56
FREM Rushed behind 1.1.7 - 1.0.6 11:09
ESSE Will Hams behind 1.1.7 - 1.1.7 12:43
FREM Matthew Pavlich behind 1.2.8 - 1.1.7 16:11
FREM Stephen Hill goal 2.2.14 - 1.1.7 17:45
FREM Rushed behind 2.3.15 - 1.1.7 20:40
FREM Matthew Pavlich goal 3.3.21 - 1.1.7 21:56
FREM Zac Clarke goal 4.3.27 - 1.1.7 24:20
ESSE Zach Merrett goal 4.3.27 - 2.1.13 25:24
Q2 FREM Lachie Neale goal 5.3.33 - 2.1.13 01:17
FREM Matthew Pavlich goal 6.3.39 - 2.1.13 03:58
FREM Chris Mayne goal 7.3.45 - 2.1.13 06:04
FREM Matthew Pavlich goal 8.3.51 - 2.1.13 07:44
FREM Hayden Ballantyne goal 9.3.57 - 2.1.13 11:11
FREM Zac Clarke behind 9.4.58 - 2.1.13 14:06
ESSE Rushed behind 9.4.58 - 2.2.14 19:12
ESSE Joe Daniher goal 9.4.58 - 3.2.20 22:03
ESSE Rushed behind 9.4.58 - 3.3.21 27:27
Q3 FREM Matthew Pavlich goal 10.4.64 - 3.3.21 02:08
ESSE Jackson Merrett behind 10.4.64 - 3.4.22 04:20
FREM Michael Walters behind 10.5.65 - 3.4.22 06:29
ESSE Joe Daniher behind 10.5.65 - 3.5.23 11:05
FREM Clancee Pearce goal 11.5.71 - 3.5.23 16:06
FREM Nat Fyfe behind 11.6.72 - 3.5.23 18:54
ESSE Rushed behind 11.6.72 - 3.6.24 22:56
FREM Michael Walters goal 12.6.78 - 3.6.24 24:49
Q4 FREM Nat Fyfe behind 12.7.79 - 3.6.24 01:27
ESSE Jobe Watson behind 12.7.79 - 3.7.25 02:20
ESSE Ben Howlett goal 12.7.79 - 4.7.31 05:48
ESSE Travis Colyer goal 12.7.79 - 5.7.37 07:15
ESSE Travis Colyer behind 12.7.79 - 5.8.38 08:24
ESSE Jobe Watson behind 12.7.79 - 5.9.39 13:08
ESSE Jobe Watson goal 12.7.79 - 6.9.45 14:28
FREM Matthew Pavlich behind 12.8.80 - 6.9.45 16:05
ESSE Rushed behind 12.8.80 - 6.10.46 19:33
ESSE Martin Gleeson goal 12.8.80 - 7.10.52 20:56